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noisy autistic child encourages kindergarten to buy noise-cancelling headphones

A decision that arouses a certain excitement in the region. In a kindergarten class in the village of Walscheid, a village in where nearly thirty students attend school, the children have had to wear noise-cancelling headphones during lessons for several weeks. The reason? A child affected by an autism spectrum disorder makes a lot of noise in class and frequently pushes cries of joy or sadness. So, to protect the ears of other students, the school management had no other solution than to equip them with hearing protection.

Parents of students wonder

This option would have been chosen with the approval of the town hallwhich the latter disputes with Le Parisien. “But it is completely false to say that it was the municipality which provided this equipment”assures Mayor Michel Schiby without specifying who ultimately paid them. Obviously, the parents of students in the class stepped up, fearing that their children's learning would be biased.

“We think first of this child” assures a mother

However, today it seems complicated to find another solution. « The teacher is competent and invested. She is a golden teacher. But she also suffers from hearing after-effects and works with tinnitus, when the disabled child cries. And to date, there is no evidence that hearing…

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